# Vaibhav N P. > Engineering Leader | Ex-Apple, Ex-Gap | Polyglot | Founder @Hashed Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vaibhavnp I’m a Staff Software Engineer/ Engineering Leader with 9+ years of experience building and scaling backend-heavy systems across enterprise, public sector, and startup environments. I’ve led monolith-to-microservices transformations, designed high-throughput Kafka and ETL pipelines, and owned core platform architecture around identity, session management, and security. At Gap Inc., I set technical direction across multiple teams, mentored engineers, and introduced AI-driven data validation to improve data quality at scale. Today, I own critical user and session infrastructure for large-scale government platforms. I also bring a founder mindset—having built and scaled a 0→1 e-commerce platform end-to-end—which shapes how I think about ownership, tradeoffs, and execution. Strong in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, cloud platforms, and increasingly focused on practical AI in production systems. I thrive in high-ownership roles where systems, data, and impact matter. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Development Engineer @ Department of Child Support Services Jan 2023 – Present | Sacramento, California, United States • Architected and implemented a session timeout mechanism, mitigating 70-80% of session-related security risks by preventing unauthorized access and ensuring synchronized session expiration across tabs/windows. • Maintained and optimized existing department-wide forms built using JSP, XML, Java, and Struts. • Led and partnered with Testing team on manual and automated testing, including functional and regression testing. • Conducted demos for stakeholders, showcasing session timeout functionality and its impact on user experience. • Collaborated in Agile/Scrum teams to enhance session handling and strengthen security features. • Documented session management strategies and provided knowledge-sharing sessions for the team. • Designed and developed a customer-facing web application enabling users to securely review and pay outstanding dues, with full sign-in and authentication flow. • Implemented end-to-end functionality including user login, account lookup, enhancing customer experience and reducing overdue accounts. ### Technical Team Lead @ Gap Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Modernized 6+ legacy/monolith applications to Microservice Architecture which reduced infrastructure cost ~ 20%, response time equivalent to 20%, additional customer engagement of 5% and increased availability of 99.99%. • Led and Mentored a team of 15 geographically distributed Engineers across 10+ applications, aligning them with DevOps practices and organizational goals. • Designed and delivered Apigee proxy solutions to secure and route APIs across all customer-facing applications. • Delivered GDPR/CCPA-compliant solutions for Customer Profile and Accounts, ensuring 100% compliance and mitigating legal risks. • Architected and built multiple B2B applications, driving 10–15% growth in daily order volume. • Designed Apache Kafka data pipelines to migrate and process 100M+ customer records, achieving efficient parallelism with 99.99% availability. • Planned and reviewed Go-Live strategies, product roadmaps, and monitoring solutions, resulting in an 80% reduction in critical incidents. • Reviewed and improved policies for secure handling of PII and PCI data, enhancing ecommerce compliance. • Contributed to the development of a forward-looking technical strategy, leveraging market insights and emerging technologies for payments • Developed ELT pipeline for SCM to identify the costing and maintain the transactions of invoices. ### Founder @ The Hashed Co Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | India • Launched The Hashed Co in October 2020, building it from concept to a publicly available platform. • Started with Shopify for storefront design and database connectivity alongside Firebase, while leveraging Facebook, Instagram, and Google Ads for early customer acquisition. • Integrated Google Analytics to track sales performance, user behavior, and marketing ROI. • Collaborated with customers to gather feedback and reviews, fueling continuous product and experience improvements. • Migrated the platform to a scalable Java Spring Boot microservices architecture with ReactJS on the frontend, AWS hosting, and machine learning models for customer needs identification and automated shipping optimization. • Implemented Klaviyo for targeted brand promotions and automated subscriber email campaigns, enhancing customer engagement. • Established seamless connectivity across all platform layers — from browsing to checkout to fulfillment — ensuring a smooth end-to-end customer journey. • Deployed monitoring integrations and alerting mechanisms to ensure operational reliability and timely issue resolution. • Additional responsibilities included integrating the payment gateway, configuring DNS settings, and more. • Scaled traffic to 1,000–5,000 daily visitors with 35–50 orders per hour, demonstrating strong growth and sustained customer adoption. ### Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead @ Gap Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States • Designed and implemented modernization plans for legacy applications to REST API-based microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, React and Azure infrastructure. • Delivered business-driven features aligned with product roadmap, increasing customer engagement by 20%. • Designed and implemented new business programs using the latest Java and cloud technologies resulting in 15% improvement in customer engagement in last 1 year. • Resolved tech debts and bugs in alignment with stakeholder feedback to meet delivery outcomes. • Played a key role in hiring and led agile ceremonies for a high-performing and inclusive team. • Defined test strategies using Cucumber, achieving a time-to-market reduction from 2 months to 10 days. • Automated dormant app scaling via Python scripts and CI pipelines, cutting cloud costs by 20%. • Set up end-to-end Jenkins CI/CD for legacy applications, reducing manual deployment efforts by 70%. • Spearheaded the integration of Drools as a centralized business rules engine to externalize complex logic across customer and partner-facing applications, reducing code changes and enhancing maintainability. • Leveraged AWS services and deployed containerized microservices on Red Hat OpenShift, integrating Red Hat Fuse for robust, scalable system-to-system communication. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California, United States • Actively Involved in Agile Methodology with team members in Project Planning and Architecture work flow. • Developed API's with BOX application, which syncs the data of all Apple Customers to Cloud Services. • Responsible for developing Spring and Spring boot-based Controllers, Service Components and DAO using Hibernate framework and MVC Model. • Worked on Different Utilities which handles multi threaded functions, to be more time efficient while executing the API's and persisting data. • Actively involved in Development and Deployment processes using Jenkins as a CI-CD tool. • Implemented a Framework to handle Multiple Logs coming through API's in a Parallel manner and persist the logs into Database which processed records 15-20% faster. • Integrated Splunk with Cassandra DB using Java to persist box API logs to achieve a Tableau dashboard which increased customers insights to up to 30%. ### iOS Engineer @ Business Intelli solutions Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Fremont • Used UI Tab Bar, UI Navigation View, UI Table View, Core Data, Parsing, MK Map, and other view controllers to build the UI. • Utilized Objective-C, swift and Cocoa framework to develop the project. • Developed critical tools for this project like customized navigation bar, page control and scroll view. • Used UI Kit Framework for the applications at hand and extensively on table view controller and made customized table view cells according to the client requirement. • Created and customized Views, Table Views, Tab Bars and Navigation Bars which are some basic functionality in a Multi view Application. • Utilized NS User Defaults, P-list, Core Data, and SQLite in several iOS software development projects and Utilized Instruments tool extensively at the end of development cycle to minimize memory leaks and assure overall application stability. • Used Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter integrations using Cocoa Pods for Social Sign In (Launch date user count was 1000+) ### Software Development Engineer @ Aumento Infoway Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India • Involved in Agile Scrum methodology, Agile meeting, Sprint and Release Planning meetings. • Use JIRA to log estimates and track progress for user-stories and bug fixes. • Involved in the requirements review, Design, Development, Unit testing and Bug fixing of the system and Deployment. • Involved in all the phases of SDLC including requirements gathering, design & analysis of the customer specifications, development, and customization of the application. • Analyze requirement and based on requirement developed system design and architecture followed by sequence diagram, different UML models and maintain requirement documents. • Designed and developed application based on Spring MVC, Spring Templates, Hibernate and SOAP. • Configured and maintained Jenkins jobs, Cron jobs for Scheduled transactions were developed. ### Dot Net Developer @ Tops Technologies Pt. Ltd Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • Involved in handling various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements • Involved in the development of dynamic ASPX web pages, retrieved data using ASP.Net with C# • Implemented technologies like HTML, JavaScript and AJAX for rich UI experience • Microsoft Application Data Blocks was used in Data Access Layer and Data List, Data Grid and Data Repeater are used to display the data • Created and deployed web services as wrapper between server and client components • Performed Forms Based Authentication and ensured Role Based Authorization • Performed client side and server-side validation form validations using Javascript and ASP.NET validation controls respectively ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Technology SHRI SADVIDHYA MANDAL INSTITUTE OF TECH., BHARUCH 045 ### Master of Business Administration - MBA Campbellsville University ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science San Francisco Bay University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vpatel12 - Website: https://thehashed.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/vaibhavnp JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vaibhavnp/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01